Ashley Guillard: TikTok tarot reader ordered to pay $10m over false predictions about Idaho murders
Her prediction about the identity of the University of Idaho killer was spectacularly wrong.
A TikTok tarot reader who got a prediction about the identity of the University of Idaho killer spectacularly wrong has been ordered to pay $10m to the person she falsely accused.
Ashley Guillard, a Texas woman who calls herself an “intuitive tarot reader” who “solves mysteries”, posted a series of videos in 2022 claiming University of Idaho professor Rebecca Scofield was behind the horrific murders of four students.
Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Zana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were stabbed to death in an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho on November 13, 2022.
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The notorious case triggered global headlines and, before Kohberger’s arrest and confession, inspired numerous internet sleuths to post about their theories about the murderer’s identity.
Guillard, who believes herself to have psychic abilities, testified that she read tarot cards to try to help solve the shocking homicides, the Idaho Statesman reported.
She wrongly claimed in videos posted on TikTok that Professor Scofield was in a relationship with one of the murdered students and that she had orchestrated the murders after the student threatened to go public.
On February 27, a jury ordered Guillard, 41, to pay Professor Scofield $10 million in damages for posting the videos, which had continued even after Professor Scofield’s lawyers sent her cease and desist notices and after police issued a statement confirming she was not a suspect.
The posts spread widely online and garnered millions of views.
In June 2024, a federal judge ruled statements made by Guillard in the videos were defamatory and based only her “spiritual intuition about the murders” — not “any objective basis”, People reported.
In a trial to determine compensation last week, Professor Scofield told the court she had suffered severe anxiety, PTSD, and intense nerve pain after her name was published online as a suspect, the Statesmen reported.
Last week jurors took just two hours to determine Professor Scofield had been harmed by the posts and deserved compensation, ordering Guillard to pay $6.5m for the false allegations about the murders and $3.5m for the false statements about an inappropriate relationship with a student.
“The $10 million verdict reinforces the judge’s decision and sends the clear message that false statements online have consequences in the real world for real people and are unacceptable in our community,” Professor Scofield said in a statement to People.
“The murders of the four students on November 13, 2022, was the darkest chapter in our university’s history. Today’s decision shows that respect and care should always be granted to victims during these tragedies.”
After the verdict, Guillard, who represented herself in the trial, posted a series of TikTok’s disputing the outcome, calling it “unfair” and “ridiculous” and flagging she may appeal the ruling.
